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    There's a mountain of evidence that Trump's trade fights will be most harmful to the people who voted for him
    Red states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 stand more to lose if other countries retaliate against US tariffs, according to economists at Citi.
    The benefits of tariffs to domestic producers will be undermined by retaliation that specifically targets sectors this administration champions, Citi said.


    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-...110000329.html

    In President Donald Trump's trade war, the states he won during the election are the most defenseless.

    That's according to economists at Citi, who last week published a research note on which US states are most exposed to a trade war and what this means for the midterm elections.

    "With several economies now imposing retaliatory trade actions in the wake of the Trump administration’s trade tariffs, the stakes have risen for, and the evidence more compelling against, 'red' states by several measures," Citi's Dana Peterson said in the note. Trade wars may reverse the "hiring bonanza," she added.

    The tariffs — taxes on imports to the US — were sold as a way to level the playing field between US producers and their foreign competition, and grow industry even more. But China, the European Union, Canada, India, and Mexico are set to retaliate.

    On Friday, the US and China imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of each other's goods, with China's Ministry of Commerce saying in a statement that Trump launched "the largest trade war in economic history."

    Red states, so-called because they're historically Republican or voted for Trump in 2016, stand to lose more because they benefit the most from trade with other countries, Citi's Peterson said. Imports and exports to red states totaled $2.1 trillion last year, compared to $1.7 trillion for Democratic blue states. Texas, Michigan, and Illinois were among the largest contributors to trade nationwide, since they have some of the largest ports.

    After examining the kinds of goods that could be taxed, Citi found that red states ship more to countries that could retaliate US tariffs. These exports include various kinds of food, beverages, luxury goods and medical appliances — all of which are under the purview of tariffs.

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    Speaking of the awfulness of ICE:

    Latest ICE Data Details Increasingly Indiscriminate Arrests

    Under Trump, the agency is returning to a pattern abandoned by the Obama administration.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    There's a mountain of evidence that Trump's trade fights will be most harmful to the people who voted for him
    Red states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 stand more to lose if other countries retaliate against US tariffs, according to economists at Citi.
    The benefits of tariffs to domestic producers will be undermined by retaliation that specifically targets sectors this administration champions, Citi said.


    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-...110000329.html
    Well, they chose to cast their lot with Caramel Caligula, now they have to deal with the unpleasant aftermath of that decision.

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    Mitch McConnell Confronted By Protesters Asking: ‘Where Are The Babies?’

    Demonstrators in Kentucky shouted “Vote you out” as he left a restaurant. No babies! No peace! Meanwhile....

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    Year-Old Baby Appears In Immigration Court, Cries Hysterically

    Judge said he was “embarrassed” to ask if the boy understood the proceedings. What the flaming **** is this ****?

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    Ivanka Trump’s Chinese-Made Products Conveniently Spared From Dad’s Tariffs

    The first daughter doesn’t appear to believe in “made in America.” No ****, Sherlock! Of course Ms. Complicit doesn't! Disgusting!

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    Trump’s Indefinite Family Detention Is Cruel — Just Ask Japanese Americans

    In the last month, many Americans have mobilized and protested, outraged by the Trump administration’s appallingly cruel policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico. This pushback compelled President Donald Trump to rescind the policy, which sacrificed innocent, frightened boys and girls as pawns in an ugly political battle. But his executive order can hardly be considered a humanitarian solution since it calls for maintaining “zero tolerance” and incarcerating entire families indefinitely.

    Indefinite detention is also cruel. It is not, as one Trump supporter airily claimed, like summer camp.

    The Japanese American community knows this. During World War II, all persons of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast ― mostly families with children ― were forced into temporary detention centers, including livestock barns on fairgrounds and horse stalls at racetracks, and then transferred to more permanent camps: Tule Lake, Manzanar, Minidoka, Heart Mountain, Poston, Gila River, Topaz, Amache, Jerome and Rohwer.

    Many Japanese Americans, including members of my family, have worked long and hard to preserve the memory and lessons of the U.S. concentration camps in order to prevent intolerant race-based policies from taking root in our country again.
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    Stephen King Has A ‘Warning’ For Brits Ahead Of Trump’s U.K. Visit

    Just a warning to my British friends: An American dipshit is coming to visit you. Please remember most of us didn't vote for him; he lost by 3 million votes. His presidency is a statistical anomaly.
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    When's the last time a Republican's heritage come into to question?
    We only seem to discover one of them faked, or exaggerated about their military service every few months.
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    It was three years ago we shared our original "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profile of Randy Terrill, a former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives with ties to FAIR, an organization classified as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center who repeatedly submitted unconstitutional legislation to make English the official language of the state, and to end Spanish-language driver's tests in the state, describing it as "slowly rolling down the welcome mat for illegals" because as he told the Wall Street Journal "Latin Americans will not assimilate like previous waves of immigrants". The rest of his legislative record included not just anti-abortion support and stricter Voter ID votes, but also his submission of Oklahoma's legendary attempted (and unnecessary) ban on Sharia Law. Don't lose sleep over a crazy bigot like this being in office, because Terrill was caught trying to bribe a Democratic State Senator to not run for office so an ally could run against her unopposed, and went to prison for it. The prison sentence he got effectively also ended his career, and we’re fine with that.

    In both 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented profiles of the former U.S. House Representative from South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District, Mick Mulvaney, who appeared in Washington in the 2010 Tea Party Wave after making a career as a state legislator who would sponsor bills to require medically unnecessary ultrasounds before abortions, define marriage as only existing between a man and a woman, and strict anti-immigration restrictions. Once he found himself in our nation’s capital, Mulvaney joined the House Freedom Caucus, the radical bomb-throwers who thought House Speaker John Boehner, who somehow, inflexible as he was, wasn’t conservative enough, and became one of the more combative members of the GOP House in attempting to oust him. Except of course, for all the times when Mulvaney would develop a split personality and turn around and lecture some of his colleagues for attempting to do the exact same thing. Rep. Mulvaney was not really a person worth noting until right around the time he voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown, when over the course of two weeks, he made headlines with two bizarre quotes that made people wonder if the stress of the job was getting to him. The first being a Newsmax interview where he claimed he eavesdropped on a phone call between Speaker Boehner and President Obama about discussions to negotiate the budget, and to raise the debt ceiling, where he said that Obama was “acting like a girlfriend I had in high school who called me to tell me she was giving me the silent treatment”. Well, Mulvaney followed that up by, after not voting to re-open the government, he made an outrageous claim that money was set aside in the new budget… for Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony and his “Lord’s Resistance Army” rebel group that is infamous for kidnapping children and turning them either into soldiers or sex slaves. Why in the HELL any money would be given to them… in any event, Mulvaney’s communications director took the blame, saying that the statement was because of a “typo” on her part. What slip of the keys made her somehow type out twenty incorrect characters, or what Mulvaney had actually meant, of course, they neglected to say. Now, it would make sense for someone who had such an epic political blunder as the GOP did with the 2013 Government Shutdown to not repeat it. Mick Mulvaney, however, is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he was so adamant about cutting funding to Planned Parenthood after the “sting” videos released by the Center for Medical that Mulvaney was the leader of the group of 28 Republicans who signed a letter to threaten ANOTHER government shutdown to force the point. It’s amazing that someone could be that much of an extremist that the fact that Mulvaney’s also a climate change denier is and afterthought. After all, he’s much more noteworthy for voting against disaster relief funding for Hurricane Sandy, every attempt the GOP has made to repeal the Affordable Care Act, against raising the debt ceiling, and issued a press release with some revisionist history where he commended Senate Republicans for refusing to hold confirmation hearings for Judge Merrick Garland as a nominee to the Supreme Court, lying in it an saying “the right should fall as it has for 200 years… to the incoming president.” Well, we might not be profiling Mick Mulvaney after this year, as he’s no longer an elected politician… shortly after the 2016 Elections, he was named Donald Trump’s Budget Director. And frankly, that has led to a comedy of errors. Like how Mick came out and tried defending the Trump budget cutting all funding to Meals on Wheels because it was one of those programs “not showing any results” (The lack of people starving because of it would disagree with that, you utter mother***er). He’s also begun making the habit of not just ignoring facts when it comes to climate change, but with anyone presenting any kind of facts, like when he disputed the CBO gave their score to the House GOP’s healthcare bill, and reported it would leave 24 million people without health insurance who are currently covered. That’s earned him the criticism of the previous four directors of the CBO. Remember, this is the White House’s budget director being slammed by past four heads of the Congressional Budget Office. We’re not even warming up, here. Mulvaney is such an ideological twit that as the Trump agenda began failing in the middle of 2017, he already began talking about how Congressional Republicans should stage a government shutdown again. Except this time… THE GOP ARE IN CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, SENATE, AND WHITE HOUSE. Think about that. The Republican Party has forgotten how to govern so much that it’s threatening itself with closing down because it can’t make a decision about what direction to lead the country. We are only hoping that this is the last job in government that Mick Mulvaney ever holds in government, and when the Trump administration reaches its overdue ending, he gets swept out with the rest of the trash, never to be heard from again. we'll move on and start profiling a different wacky Republican on this date instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 684-30, since this was established in July 2014.)
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    Luther Strange

    Welcome to the 684th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we’re going to discuss the former U.S. Senator from Alabama, Luther Strange, who served seven months as an interim Senator after serving six years as the Attorney General of Alabama. And, a myriad of CSGOPOTD f***-ups from Alabama are linked to both Strange’s rise and fall. Strap in for that saga, containing all the weirdness and Alabama GOP drama that I can’t believe even happened within an eight year window.

    Strange was never supposed to win in the GOP Primary to become Alabama AG, not in 2006 when he lost, but especially when he tried to upset Troy King during the 2010 elections. But the man he faced off against that year, Troy King, was rumored to have been caught by his wife banging a 24 year old college intern. Complicating things for King was that the intern was a homecoming… king. Also, from Troy University, so… Troy King allegedly was cheating on his wife with the king of Troy. That supposed relationship wasn’t exactly the sort of thing you can win an Alabama GOP Primary in, and the fact that King managed to score a $60,000 a year job for his boy-toy so there was talk of corruption with the sex scandal as well…

    Anyway, six years go by, and Luther Strange is trucking along in the seedy world of Alabama politics when Governor Robert Bentley gets busted in his own sex scandal when he was shtupping a top aide, and she definitely was on the state payroll. So Luther Strange was going to serve as the man who would indict Bentley and determine what charges were appropriate for his corruption scandal. So when Senator Jeff Sessions was appointed Attorney General, all of a sudden, Gov. Bentley thought that Luther Strange would make the finest goddamned Senator ever, which in no way made anyone think it seemed like he was bribing the A.G. for some leniency. Even with all the commentary about how incredibly screwed up this arrangement was, Luther Strange became the tallest senator in American history at six-foot-nine, and was around to vote for Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court Justice and to rubber stamp any other Trump appointee.

    So… yes. Luther Strange’s ascendance was due to all sorts of folks trying to slip the salami to underlings they were also the bosses of. Could his downfall get any seedier? Well, his chief fundraiser was being investigated by the feds for a bribery scandal. Just a reminder about how Strange was upset in the special election to hold onto that U.S. Senate seat by Roy Moore, who was known at the time to be an anti-Semitic, terribly homophobic, terribly racist lunatic who was twice kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court and was pulling out revolvers at campaign rallies and riding a horse to the polls (badly). Yes, Luther Strange lost to that guy, and then all the women who Roy Moore hit on as teens and the members of the police department and local community who were aware Moore was a pedophile were like, “Hey, maybe this guy shouldn’t be a Senator, y’know?”

    Luther Strange lost to that guy.

    As far as Strange just being a corrupt tool that fell ass-backwards onto the U.S. Senate, he also used the power he had as Alabama Attorney General to try and block the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling on same sex marriage, and tried protecting ExxonMobil in a lawsuit when it was discovered the oil company did everything it could to conceal investigations into climate change.

    Strange is currently out of office, and at 65, tainted by scandals and humiliated by a loss in an election to an insane, bigoted pedophile, it’s unlikely that he gets a second chance for his political career. We’re fine with that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    There's a mountain of evidence that Trump's trade fights will be most harmful to the people who voted for him
    Red states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 stand more to lose if other countries retaliate against US tariffs, according to economists at Citi.
    The benefits of tariffs to domestic producers will be undermined by retaliation that specifically targets sectors this administration champions, Citi said.


    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-...110000329.html
    Hooray for inflation!

    Actually, the fact that this will make food costs soar mean this is going to end badly for many people.

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    Brexit continues to flounder as Boris Johnson resigns as Foreign Secretary of the UK.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...y-live-updates

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Brexit continues to flounder as Boris Johnson resigns as Foreign Secretary of the UK.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...y-live-updates
    Makes me wonder if buyer's remorse has set in yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    There's a mountain of evidence that Trump's trade fights will be most harmful to the people who voted for him
    Red states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 stand more to lose if other countries retaliate against US tariffs, according to economists at Citi.
    The benefits of tariffs to domestic producers will be undermined by retaliation that specifically targets sectors this administration champions, Citi said.


    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-...110000329.html
    Good. **** them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Brexit continues to flounder as Boris Johnson resigns as Foreign Secretary of the UK.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...y-live-updates
    Maybe he wants the spare time to console Trump when everyone in London mocks him during his visit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Maybe he wants the spare time to console Trump when everyone in London mocks him during his visit.
    Are we sure he isn't so self absorbed as to think the giant baby is him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Maybe he wants the spare time to console Trump when everyone in London mocks him during his visit.
    Is Dolt45 still meeting with Queenie and the Royals? Or did she tell him to **** off and not waste their time (in a proper British manner of course)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    There's a mountain of evidence that Trump's trade fights will be most harmful to the people who voted for him
    Red states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 stand more to lose if other countries retaliate against US tariffs, according to economists at Citi.
    The benefits of tariffs to domestic producers will be undermined by retaliation that specifically targets sectors this administration champions, Citi said.


    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-...110000329.html
    It's completely intentional -- Germany, England, and Canada plan to do the same.

    And for those who say "they" deserve it, it would be extremely short-sighted to think that this won't affect all Americans and not just the ones that have been targeted -- especially if this 'war" continues for an extended period of time.

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    "A leaked propaganda notice from the Chinese government states that the country is using to tariffs to try to disrupt and split President Trump’s base, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.

    The notice, leaked and published by the China Digital Times, which monitors media censorship in China, states the tariffs are meant to split “apart different domestic groups in US.”

    “We stop negotiation for now, acting tit for tat, roll out corresponding policies, hold public opinion at a good level without escalating it, limit scope, and strike accurately and carefully, splitting apart different domestic groups in US,” the propaganda notice reads.

    “The trade conflict is really a war against China’s rise, to see who has the greater stamina,” the document continues. "This is absolutely no time for irresolution or reticence.”

    The document also directs media to not report on comments from Trump or other officials, adding that outlets shouldn’t “attack Trump’s vulgarity; don’t make this a war of insults.”

    Experts have warned that the Chinese tariffs could be used to specifically target Trump supporters, particularly with tariffs on goods like soybeans and sorghum. The crops are produced largely in areas that backed Trump in the 2016 election..."

    http://thehill.com/policy/finance/in...-target-trumps


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    Edit: I stand corrected -- they've already done it.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/b...ump-trade.html
    http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/01/news...num/index.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Is Dolt45 still meeting with Queenie and the Royals? Or did she tell him to **** off and not waste their time (in a proper British manner of course)?
    Last I heard, after Trump was demanding a royal carriage ride with the queen, the royals politely told him to go f*** himself, and wouldn't be meeting him. Considering he once stalked Princess Diana, I don't have the feeling that the Princes would be falling all over themselves to ask grandma to change her mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Makes me wonder if buyer's remorse has set in yet.
    It set in the day after the vote. There were Brits who said, "Wait. What did we vote for now?"

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